1. 1nA2/ˈfɔːrɪst/ · /ˈfɒrɪst/森林

    A very large area of land covered with trees growing close together.

    A very large area of land一大片土地covered with trees growing close together長滿了緊密生長的樹

    示範例句 · Example

    The forest behind Leo's house is full of tall pine trees.

    逐字Leo家後面的森林長滿了高高的松樹。

    「forest」指的是一大片、樹木長得很密的地方,比 woods(樹林)大很多,也比 jungle(叢林)少了那種又濕又熱、爬滿植物的感覺 —— 這三個字學習者常常搞混,可以想成:forest 大,woods 小,jungle 濕熱茂密。

    常見搭配

    • dense forest

      茂密的森林

      a forest where the trees grow very close together

      Much of Scandinavia is covered in dense pine forest.

    • forest fire

      森林大火

      a large fire that burns in a forest

      A forest fire can spread very quickly in dry, windy weather.

    • the forest edge

      森林邊緣

      the place where a forest begins or ends

      The rabbit stopped at the forest edge and looked around before going in.

    • protect the forest

      保護森林

      to take care of a forest so it is not destroyed

      Schools often teach children why it is important to protect the forest.

    • tropical forest

      熱帶森林

      a forest in a hot, wet part of the world

      Tropical forests are home to millions of different plants and animals.

    意思相近

    woodlandwoods

    用法接近

    rainforestjunglegrovecopseplantationthicket

core核心畫面

So many trees, so close together, that you cannot see out — the ground is shaded, the sky is broken up by branches, and it goes on for a long way. Size and denseness are both in the picture.

可以想成:樹多到看不見外面——地上是暗的,天空被枝葉切碎,而且一路延伸很遠。這個字的畫面同時包含「大」和「密」兩件事。跟 wood(s) 的差別就在規模:woods 是走得完的小樹林,forest 大得多,常和保育、伐木、生態這些話題一起出現。

同家族的字

複數 forests

意思相近

woodlandwoods

用法接近

rainforestjunglegrovecopseplantationthicket

原始詞典資料15 筆記錄

以下是外部詞典記錄的用法,摘錄並精簡格式,我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的;有些用法可能上面已經講過了。

Forestname

  • 1

    A surname.

  • 2

    A city, the county seat of Scott County, Mississippi, United States.

  • 3

    A number of townships in the United States, in Indiana, Iowa, Michigan (3), Minnesota (2), and Missouri, listed under Forest Township.

  • 4

    A hamlet in Ellerton-on-Swale parish, North Yorkshire, England (OS grid ref NZ2700).

  • 5

    A locality in Circular Head Council, north western Tasmania, Australia.

  • 6

    A municipality of Brussels, Brussels Capital Region, Belgium

  • 7

    ball-gamesgameshobbiesNottingham Forest F.C.

  • 8

    A male given name: Alternative form of Forrest.

forestnoun/ˈfɒɹɪst/

  • 1

    A dense uncultivated tract of trees and undergrowth, larger than woods.

    • Who after Archimagoes fowle defeat / Led her away into a foreſt wilde, / And turning wrathfull fyre to luſtfull heat, / With beaſtly ſin though her to haue defilde, / And made the vaſſal of his pleaſures vilde.
    • Since the mid-1980s, when Indonesia first began to clear its bountiful forests on an industrial scale in favour of lucrative palm-oil plantations, “haze” has become an almost annual occurrence in South-East Asia. The cheapest way to clear logged woodland is to burn it, producing an acrid cloud of foul white smoke that, carried by the wind, can cover hundreds, or even thousands, of square miles.
  • 2

    Any dense collection or amount.

    • a forest of criticism
    • Squealing and still propelled by the kick, the calf scrabbled through the forest of legs and into the open.
  • 3

    historicalA defined area of land set aside in England as royal hunting ground or for other privileged use; all such areas.

    • Throughout the 1500s, the populace roiled over a constellation of grievances of which the forest emerged as a key focal point. The popular late Middle Ages fictional character Robin Hood, dressed in green to symbolize the forest, dodged fines for forest offenses and stole from the rich to give to the poor. But his appeal was painfully real and embodied the struggle over wood.
    • […] in places such as the Forest of Bowland there is hardly a tree in sight and much of the area is a vast tract of almost barren gritstone hills and peat moorland.
  • 4

    graph-theorymathematicssciencesA graph with no cycles; i.e., a graph made up of trees.

    • Let H be a traversal of an undirected graph G = (X, U). For given H, the set U can be split into set of tree edges from the forest G_H and the set of inverse edges that do not belong to this forest.
  • 5

    computingengineeringmathematicsA group of domains that are managed as a unit.

    • Forests are considered the security boundary in Active Directory; by this we mean that if you need to definitively restrict access to a resource within a particular domain so that administrators from other domains do not have any access to it whatsoever, you need to implement a separate forest instead of using an additional domain within the current forest.
  • 6

    The color forest green.

forestverb/ˈfɒɹɪst/

  • 1

    To cover an area with trees.

    • From the view-point of national economy professor Fehér communicates to us most interesting facts, which he has established in an important question now of actuality : in the subject of foresting the Great Hungarian Plains.

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